By the time she got him situated into the chair, the first few marines had already been transferred to the frigate.
There was the story of Doffue Martling, a large blue-bearded Dutchman, who had nearly taken a British frigate with an old iron nine-pounder from a mud breastwork, only that his gun burst at the sixth discharge.
KB923 then observed them turn toward the Lycian frigate.
Military efficiency meant that within ten minutes the Colonel and a handful of crew had exited the frigate and were floating across to the cargo ship.
On one of them was painted by some very poor hand the Rape of Helen, when the bold guest carried her off from Menelaus, and on the other was the story of Dido and Æneas, she on a high tower, as though she were making signals with a half sheet to her fugitive guest who was out at sea flying in a frigate or brigantine.
KB923 recognized the ship as Lycian in design, most likely a weijura class patrol frigate.
Their leader dropped everyone off the frigate that they had stolen, and then sped to meet the incoming fleet.
It might be thought they were about to board a frigate and to fight a crew superior in number to their own, not to attempt the capture of a canoe manned by four people.
The frigate pulled up beside the cargo carrier, and a docking ring extended out to meet it.
A second ion blast from Dominion was somewhat dissipated as it passed through the defense pod screen, but it succeeded in striking the stern of the fleeing frigate, causing further systems failures.
